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Chicago examiner tuesday Chicago april 9 1918 tuesday registered t>t>t/^tti mvi-rk it vrni in chicaoo elsewhere o s patent office im-lct 1h o lijiijn if and sububb tiu.ki oest9 vol xvi xo 93 a iu french retreat from oise ebh strike 111 rmev rerion i poilus retire fighting on oise front forced over ailette ber lin says claims 2,000 captives u s army joins allies as teuton guns pounding 125 mile front herald new smash london april b although outnumbered three to one the french are resisting desperately and with some meas ure of success the smashing drive the germans are pressing on the southern side of the oise fifteen miles southeast of noyon meanwhile far to the north the germans to-day extended the battle line into flanders twenty miles above arras brit ish positions were raked with ; gas shells before lens la bassee and armentieres the last named town is on the franco-belgian border at the same time the ger mans apparently gave up their direct drive at amiens the great allied base in the center of the long battle line it is believed that their en tire plan has been changed overnight their artillery was pound ing the entire battle front to-night from armentieres around the montdidier salient to coucy below thc oise a front of approximately 125 miles this coupled with the re ported german gains belov the oise indicates that hirj denburg has decided to renew his grand offensive at the ex treme northern and southern edges of the present < erman salient american army ready to meet them strong american forces are now at the front ready to meet shoulder to shoulder with the british and french the shock of the next genua w since the stateim riday by french foreign min er pichon that americans rc now fight ing in picardy secrecy has cov ered the movements of per shing's men and no one knows what sector in the forthcoming great battle has been assigned them the major infantry fighting in the last twenty-four hours has centered north of coucy the paris night official state ment said the french are hin dering the german advance japan asked to quit siberia red army organized to resist further invasion but an early agreement is forecast united states and great britain are represented at important conference of russ officials petrograd april b germany has wirelessed an ultimatum demand ing removal cr disarmament of rus sian warships in finnish waters by noon april 12 its ultimatum is in accordance with article v of th breat-utovsk treaty and replies to a protest from smolny institute against the landing of ger man troops in finland moscow april b the people's commissioners have called the envoys from america france and england to a conference to con sider the japanese landing at vladi vostok the action of the japanese has aroused this city to an intense pitch of excitement at night friday the commission ers were in session debating the crisis col raymond robins red cross representative in russia attended unofficially the conference called by acting commissioner of foreign af fairs tchitcherin it lockhart went from the british cmbassv and consul grenard repre sented france demands withdrawal of japaneses forces m tchitcherin made three points protested emphaticalfy against any invasion of russia expressed regret such a step was permitted by the allies demanded immediate withdrawal of the japanese as the only solu tion the three allied representatives ex pressed their belief the incident could be settled to the satisfaction of all soon they regarded the situation as purely local and not requiring any troops from their respective coun tries they admittedly were express ing merely their own views hav ing had no official advices from their countries regarding the matter russ militia caused riots all russian papers have been ex pressing the fear for months that the japanese were intent on seizing siberia and the landing at vladi vostok has wrought them to a high pitch a red army to resist the japanese has been organized in siberia by the workingmen and soldier's deputies the deputies insist that the in significant incident at vladivostok does not justify the japanese in land ing troops powers knew of invasion says paper the isvestia says editorially i the japanese invasion is an ac complished fact the crusade against revolutionary russia ss cun by german imperialism in the west has now called to life a new mort enemy of socialistic russlp in t far east in the person of f*_'_.tieÃŸe imperialism lf we have not here a plot of r all the capitalistic governments britain makes guests of u s labor envoys london april b the british government will treat as its guests members of the american federation of labor delegates headed by james wilson presi dent of the patternmakers league of north america which is to visit england every aid will be extended to the delegates for obtaining infor mation as well as to explain american labor's viewpoint and the vast energies all classes in the united states are developing in behalf of the entente allies the delegation will confer with the trades union congress par liamentary commission and brit ish labor party officials spain forces crisis with u s halting of supplies for pershing brings inquiry as to stand ing with germany by k h stansbury international jvews service staff cor respondent washington april s supplies purchased in spain by gen pershing for the american expeditionary forces in france have not been released the financial credit for france promised by spain in return fcr the privilege of importing american cot ton has not been granted the united states has not been permitted to benefit by the agreement between washington and madrid signed by representatives of the two governments march 7 threats to sink spanish ships and german political propaganda in mad rid are held responsible crisis is precipitated a government crisis which will throw the influence of spain either with or against germany or reveal the impotence of the nation in world affairs is expected to be the immedi ate result with full expectation that the trade agreement concluded here a month ago would be promptly rati fied in madrid the war board im mediately provided the spanish ships detained in port with bunker coal ten days ago the spanish ship mon tevideo bound for the united states was stopped by a german submarine commander just beyond cadiz and was ordered back to port under pen alty of being sunk germany tries to explain german representatives at barce lona said no spanish ships would be allowed to return to american ports as they would be seized as dutch ships had been the war trade board immediately issued a guarantee against seizure the spanish ambassador senor rlano called at the state depart ment to-day and conferred with counselor frank l polk to hell with kaiser is evangelist's prayer hopkinsville ky april b the rev bascom b waters conduct ing a revival here made this prayer to-day o lord bless the president of the united states the king of england and the president of france but if you will excuse us lord to hell with the kaiser peary ill undergoes transfusion of blood washington april 8 â€” rear ad miral peary discoverer of the north pole is recovering at his home here from a blood transfusion operation admiral peary last week suffered an attack of what the doctors call per nicious anaemia miss alida babcock to aid u.s for 1 salary liiss alida babcock 1936 sheridan rd evanston leaves for washington this morning where she will offer her services to the government for war duty under the dollar a year salary 250 cities exceed their bond quotas samuel gompers issues appeal to nation to make safest in vestment in the world mcadoo clamps lid on giving out totals april 21 to be liberty sunday washington april 8 â€” the third liberty loan to-day settled down into a strong stride that will if main tained carry it over the 3,000,000,000 line in record time secretary mcadoo before leaving on a tour to the south clamped the lid on official announcements of loan sales consequently the treasury de partment to-night could not even make an official estimate of sales saturday and to-day when figures finally are produced by the treasury they will represent not the total amount of bonds pledged or sold on the installment plan but the amount of cash receipts paid in on bonds this idea has been adopted to guard against overenthusiastic re ports which might endanger the suc cess of the campaign m'adoo explains stand secretary mcadoo authorized this statement in order to remove the risk of inaccurate information and of over sanguine and misleading estimates concerning the amount of subscrip tions to the third liberty loan no figures will be given out for some days and then only figures as to the actual amount of subscriptions officially filed with the federal re serve banks the danger of relying upon optimistic estimates and un official subscriptions will thus be avoided this information will be made public beginning at an early date i ask the co-operation of news papers and liberty loan committees throughout the country in the pol icy above indicated which is of vital importance to the object we all have in mind in making the lib erty loan an unqualified success more cities over ftiota the pace c'd not slacken a great deal to-day avhereas 150 cities wired on saturday before noon that they had oversubscribed their quotas more than ico additional cities telegraphed to-day that they had gone over the top twenty-seven california towns and one county won honor flags and fifty other california cities oversubscribed their respective quotas lansing mich was the first state capital under the wire sending word to-day that the original quota had been left behind april 21 has been designated as liberty loan sunday by secretary mcadoo he sent letters to 114,000 ministers to-day asking them to preach sermons on the loan on that date gompers issues appeal samuel gompers president of the american federation of labor issued the following appeal on behalf of the loan our republic finds it necessary to ask americans to contribute to an other liberty loan our country is at war to maintain to defend the basic principles upon which free gov ernment is established our country calls for service each and every man woman and child has a personal duty to perform â€” an obligation accompanying the op portunities freely accorded all some have offered and are giving their lives others their abilities but all can and should contribute money ac cording to their means it is the safest investment in the whole world workers of america you have as much if not more at stake than any other group of citizens you are urged to subscribe as generously to this loan as is withtn your power do all that you can for the common cause of democracy and freedom the world over wilson buys 1,000 bond at theater sale washington april 8 â€” president wilson started a large part of a theater audience shelling cut to-night when he subscribed to a thousand dollar liberty bond an eloquent four minute man had just concluded an address to the audience during intermis sion with an appeal that his hearers come across the president searched hur riedly through hjs clothes for a pencil failing to find one he leaned over and borrowed one from a man in the orchestra pit he then filled in a blank in the theater program and handed it to the usher when the four minute man an nounced the subscription of the chief executive the house went wild with cheering a total of 50,000 was sub scribed before the intermission was over pershing men go over the top repulse raid and chase germans back to first line trenches with the american army in france april b on the front northwest of toul friday night the germans attempted two raids but both were repulsed american infantrymen went over the top on the second occasion and pursued the germans from their first line trenches into the support trenches details of the action were made public in the following official re port : the enemy raided our trenches at two points the first attack was repulsed easily in the second the enemy was allowed to reach our wire entanglements then our fire opened and a moment later the american infantrymen rushed out in attack driving back the foe the pursuit was continued until the first enemy trenches were emptied and the germans had been driven back to their support trenches enemy artillery activity was i followed by extremely active shell ing by our heavy artillery which silenced two enemy batteries americans in heavy artillery exchange by bert ford staff correspondent of the interna tional news service with the american army in the toul sector april b the attack on the american outpost by a german patrol started the liveliest artillery exchange that has taken place in the sector northwest of toul in many weeks a sentry sighted several cronching figures in no man's land and hiÃŸ challenge drew a volley the amer icans replied with rifle volleys and machine-gun fire driving off the patrol heavy shelling by the germans which followed this clash brought a scathing artillery return from the american batteries heavy shelling sunday the enemy dropped more shells in this sector sunday than had been fired in the previous two months harassing the american front lines has been costly to the enemy every night raid has been defeated an is-year-old private in an amer ican ration detail who was ordered to surrender at one point emptied his automatic killing the sergeant in command of the germans loses three fingers he returned to his trench with three fingers missing due to the explosion of a german grenade ho was lifted to the shoulders of his matea and escorted to the dressing station the american are now calling their steel helmets carnegie der bies our men abroad to train but 30 days americans to be merged with irish french and english in reserve and lead offensive new contingents in camp here will be in battle line month after landing under new plan paris april 8 â€” american troops are expected to arrive very soon on the picardy front where the ger mans are preparing for another hard drive on amiens washington april b.â€”amer ican troops on their way to france will be ready to go into action within thirty days after arrival this is the outside time limit which generalissimo foch deems necessary for finishing their already thorough training they will be absorbed chiefly by the allied strategic reserve â€” the great army of maneuver created by the inter-allied council at the sugges tion of the american chief of staff gen tasker h bliss strategic reserve to lead offensive the strategic reserve is counted on to lead the allied counter offensive the new american army physically perfect and eager to fight is ac cordingly expected to play a big role in these historic operations skeleton brigades and regiments of the regular army may be brought up to firing line strength by brit ish and irish reserves well-informed officials of the war department in timated to-day that such a plan is under contemplation acting secretary of war benedict crowell said all dispositions of troops will be made by generalissimo foch other officials of the war depart ment said there was nothing new in the suggestion that irish troops be brigaded with american divisions the plan appears to be finding favor in england enthusiastic willingness from the irish is anticipated acting secre tary crowell indicating the im portant role in sight for american troops in france said that already the absorption of american troops by french and english divisions is under way more troops now on way to france he also let it be known that a record-breaking overseas american troop movement is under way through the war department the decision of the allied high command to make quick use of america's new army caused great satisfaction army heads indicated with pride that the allied high command regards the american material virtually on a par already with the other forces in the field they pointed out that the thirty days finishing off period allotted to the american reinforcements by gen eralissimo foch is indorsement of their estimates of the fighting qual ity of these troops indorsement of u s fighting qualities the expectation that the ameri can regular units may be skeleton ized and then filled out with allied reserves also brought mild sensa tions according to war depart ment heads there are no better fight ing forces on the western front than the american regulars plans of the war department it w*s said on high authority call for the transportation within thirty days of from 100,000 to 150,000 men german a rtillery pounds a llies on front of 125 miles british Â» london april b field marshal haig's report from head quarters to-night says : - except for hostile artillery activity on different parts of the battle front and especially in the neighborhood of bucquoy there is nothing of special interest to report the day war office statement said we advanced our line slightly during the night on the south bank of the somme east of vaire-sous-corbie north of the somme a few prisoners and a machine gun were captured by us in the neighborhood of nuville vitasee the enemy's artillery has shown increased activity during the night on the whole british battle front heavy hostile gas shelling has taken place also between lens and la bassee canal and east of armentieres french paris april 8 â€” the war office announcement to-night said : during the course of the day the enemy pressure con tinued north of the ailette river in the region of the lower coucy forest the advanced sections of our troops resisted and hin dered the advance of the enemy who was in greatly super ior numbers inflicting upon him heavy losses on the somme front between montdidier and noyon there was no infantry action but the two artilleries dis played spirited activity in the vosges an enemy attack failed north of tete de faux the day statement said : the night was marked by violent artillery actions especially on the left bank of the oise french patrols were very active bringing in pris oners on the left bank of the meuse in the argonne ger man raids were repulsed everywhere else the night passed in quiet german berlin april 8 â€” the official headquarters statement to day says : in continuation of our attack on the oise we drove the enemy out of his strong positions on the heights east of coucy-le-chateau an earlier statement said on the battle front on both sides of the somme the fighting activity remained limited to artillery duels local attacks by the british in hangard wood and by the french near grivesnes failed with heavy losses on the southern bank of the oise our successes of saturday forced the enemy to evacuate parts of his posi tions between bichancourt and barisis on the night of april 6-7 yesterday we continued our attack and threw the en emy back to the western bank of the ailette after having captured pierremande and folembray enemy columns retreating from bichancourt along the oise were attacked on the flank by our machine gun ere from the northern bank of the river and were shot down with the heaviest losses our troops advancing on the eastern border of coucy wood and by way of barisis stormed a hillock northeast of folembray and advanced as far as vereuil the num ber of prisoners has increased to over 2,000 captain von richthofen achieved his seventy-seventh and seventy-eighth aerial victories u s judge baker ill condition is serious judge francis e baker of the united states circuit court of ap peals is seriously ill at french lick springs ind physicians pronounced his illness pneumonia judge baker will be unable to sit with the court to-day and judge ferdinand a geiger of milwaukee has been called to fill the vacancy rosenwald to have high u.s.post report washingt9on april b lt is re ported that julius rosenwald of chi cago is to receive an important post in the course of a shake-up in the war department nald to be impend ing the duties of purchaser of war supplies are mentioned in connection with his name mother of samuel insull dies in london samuel insull chairman of the state council of defense received a cablegram yesterday stating that his mother mrs emma insull died last friday at her home in london eng land another message received by mr insull yesterday announced the death of one of his dearest friends george r jackson of new york mr insull will leave for new york to-day 8010 reprieved will tell german secrets paris april b bolo pasha has been granted a reprieve from the death penalty by the military court it was announced he is said to have offered to reveal important ger man secrets in return for his life president pmncare previously had refused 8010 clemencj , continued on page 4 column 3 i i ffj final n edition , i ' remember liberty onds !â€” american pencil co tain venus penclls advertisement other new of the loan i printed on pace 5.1 jw the weather a-2 \ 1 Chicago and vicinity â€” fair s ' and continued cool tuesday wednesday fair and somewhat warmer moderate northeast winds tuesday shifting to southeast wednesday i i temperature i , hiehest 4s lowest 31 mean 40

Chicago examiner tuesday Chicago april 9 1918 tuesday registered t>t>t/^tti mvi-rk it vrni in chicaoo elsewhere o s patent office im-lct 1h o lijiijn if and sububb tiu.ki oest9 vol xvi xo 93 a iu french retreat from oise ebh strike 111 rmev rerion i poilus retire fighting on oise front forced over ailette ber lin says claims 2,000 captives u s army joins allies as teuton guns pounding 125 mile front herald new smash london april b although outnumbered three to one the french are resisting desperately and with some meas ure of success the smashing drive the germans are pressing on the southern side of the oise fifteen miles southeast of noyon meanwhile far to the north the germans to-day extended the battle line into flanders twenty miles above arras brit ish positions were raked with ; gas shells before lens la bassee and armentieres the last named town is on the franco-belgian border at the same time the ger mans apparently gave up their direct drive at amiens the great allied base in the center of the long battle line it is believed that their en tire plan has been changed overnight their artillery was pound ing the entire battle front to-night from armentieres around the montdidier salient to coucy below thc oise a front of approximately 125 miles this coupled with the re ported german gains belov the oise indicates that hirj denburg has decided to renew his grand offensive at the ex treme northern and southern edges of the present < erman salient american army ready to meet them strong american forces are now at the front ready to meet shoulder to shoulder with the british and french the shock of the next genua w since the stateim riday by french foreign min er pichon that americans rc now fight ing in picardy secrecy has cov ered the movements of per shing's men and no one knows what sector in the forthcoming great battle has been assigned them the major infantry fighting in the last twenty-four hours has centered north of coucy the paris night official state ment said the french are hin dering the german advance japan asked to quit siberia red army organized to resist further invasion but an early agreement is forecast united states and great britain are represented at important conference of russ officials petrograd april b germany has wirelessed an ultimatum demand ing removal cr disarmament of rus sian warships in finnish waters by noon april 12 its ultimatum is in accordance with article v of th breat-utovsk treaty and replies to a protest from smolny institute against the landing of ger man troops in finland moscow april b the people's commissioners have called the envoys from america france and england to a conference to con sider the japanese landing at vladi vostok the action of the japanese has aroused this city to an intense pitch of excitement at night friday the commission ers were in session debating the crisis col raymond robins red cross representative in russia attended unofficially the conference called by acting commissioner of foreign af fairs tchitcherin it lockhart went from the british cmbassv and consul grenard repre sented france demands withdrawal of japaneses forces m tchitcherin made three points protested emphaticalfy against any invasion of russia expressed regret such a step was permitted by the allies demanded immediate withdrawal of the japanese as the only solu tion the three allied representatives ex pressed their belief the incident could be settled to the satisfaction of all soon they regarded the situation as purely local and not requiring any troops from their respective coun tries they admittedly were express ing merely their own views hav ing had no official advices from their countries regarding the matter russ militia caused riots all russian papers have been ex pressing the fear for months that the japanese were intent on seizing siberia and the landing at vladi vostok has wrought them to a high pitch a red army to resist the japanese has been organized in siberia by the workingmen and soldier's deputies the deputies insist that the in significant incident at vladivostok does not justify the japanese in land ing troops powers knew of invasion says paper the isvestia says editorially i the japanese invasion is an ac complished fact the crusade against revolutionary russia ss cun by german imperialism in the west has now called to life a new mort enemy of socialistic russlp in t far east in the person of f*_'_.tieÃŸe imperialism lf we have not here a plot of r all the capitalistic governments britain makes guests of u s labor envoys london april b the british government will treat as its guests members of the american federation of labor delegates headed by james wilson presi dent of the patternmakers league of north america which is to visit england every aid will be extended to the delegates for obtaining infor mation as well as to explain american labor's viewpoint and the vast energies all classes in the united states are developing in behalf of the entente allies the delegation will confer with the trades union congress par liamentary commission and brit ish labor party officials spain forces crisis with u s halting of supplies for pershing brings inquiry as to stand ing with germany by k h stansbury international jvews service staff cor respondent washington april s supplies purchased in spain by gen pershing for the american expeditionary forces in france have not been released the financial credit for france promised by spain in return fcr the privilege of importing american cot ton has not been granted the united states has not been permitted to benefit by the agreement between washington and madrid signed by representatives of the two governments march 7 threats to sink spanish ships and german political propaganda in mad rid are held responsible crisis is precipitated a government crisis which will throw the influence of spain either with or against germany or reveal the impotence of the nation in world affairs is expected to be the immedi ate result with full expectation that the trade agreement concluded here a month ago would be promptly rati fied in madrid the war board im mediately provided the spanish ships detained in port with bunker coal ten days ago the spanish ship mon tevideo bound for the united states was stopped by a german submarine commander just beyond cadiz and was ordered back to port under pen alty of being sunk germany tries to explain german representatives at barce lona said no spanish ships would be allowed to return to american ports as they would be seized as dutch ships had been the war trade board immediately issued a guarantee against seizure the spanish ambassador senor rlano called at the state depart ment to-day and conferred with counselor frank l polk to hell with kaiser is evangelist's prayer hopkinsville ky april b the rev bascom b waters conduct ing a revival here made this prayer to-day o lord bless the president of the united states the king of england and the president of france but if you will excuse us lord to hell with the kaiser peary ill undergoes transfusion of blood washington april 8 â€” rear ad miral peary discoverer of the north pole is recovering at his home here from a blood transfusion operation admiral peary last week suffered an attack of what the doctors call per nicious anaemia miss alida babcock to aid u.s for 1 salary liiss alida babcock 1936 sheridan rd evanston leaves for washington this morning where she will offer her services to the government for war duty under the dollar a year salary 250 cities exceed their bond quotas samuel gompers issues appeal to nation to make safest in vestment in the world mcadoo clamps lid on giving out totals april 21 to be liberty sunday washington april 8 â€” the third liberty loan to-day settled down into a strong stride that will if main tained carry it over the 3,000,000,000 line in record time secretary mcadoo before leaving on a tour to the south clamped the lid on official announcements of loan sales consequently the treasury de partment to-night could not even make an official estimate of sales saturday and to-day when figures finally are produced by the treasury they will represent not the total amount of bonds pledged or sold on the installment plan but the amount of cash receipts paid in on bonds this idea has been adopted to guard against overenthusiastic re ports which might endanger the suc cess of the campaign m'adoo explains stand secretary mcadoo authorized this statement in order to remove the risk of inaccurate information and of over sanguine and misleading estimates concerning the amount of subscrip tions to the third liberty loan no figures will be given out for some days and then only figures as to the actual amount of subscriptions officially filed with the federal re serve banks the danger of relying upon optimistic estimates and un official subscriptions will thus be avoided this information will be made public beginning at an early date i ask the co-operation of news papers and liberty loan committees throughout the country in the pol icy above indicated which is of vital importance to the object we all have in mind in making the lib erty loan an unqualified success more cities over ftiota the pace c'd not slacken a great deal to-day avhereas 150 cities wired on saturday before noon that they had oversubscribed their quotas more than ico additional cities telegraphed to-day that they had gone over the top twenty-seven california towns and one county won honor flags and fifty other california cities oversubscribed their respective quotas lansing mich was the first state capital under the wire sending word to-day that the original quota had been left behind april 21 has been designated as liberty loan sunday by secretary mcadoo he sent letters to 114,000 ministers to-day asking them to preach sermons on the loan on that date gompers issues appeal samuel gompers president of the american federation of labor issued the following appeal on behalf of the loan our republic finds it necessary to ask americans to contribute to an other liberty loan our country is at war to maintain to defend the basic principles upon which free gov ernment is established our country calls for service each and every man woman and child has a personal duty to perform â€” an obligation accompanying the op portunities freely accorded all some have offered and are giving their lives others their abilities but all can and should contribute money ac cording to their means it is the safest investment in the whole world workers of america you have as much if not more at stake than any other group of citizens you are urged to subscribe as generously to this loan as is withtn your power do all that you can for the common cause of democracy and freedom the world over wilson buys 1,000 bond at theater sale washington april 8 â€” president wilson started a large part of a theater audience shelling cut to-night when he subscribed to a thousand dollar liberty bond an eloquent four minute man had just concluded an address to the audience during intermis sion with an appeal that his hearers come across the president searched hur riedly through hjs clothes for a pencil failing to find one he leaned over and borrowed one from a man in the orchestra pit he then filled in a blank in the theater program and handed it to the usher when the four minute man an nounced the subscription of the chief executive the house went wild with cheering a total of 50,000 was sub scribed before the intermission was over pershing men go over the top repulse raid and chase germans back to first line trenches with the american army in france april b on the front northwest of toul friday night the germans attempted two raids but both were repulsed american infantrymen went over the top on the second occasion and pursued the germans from their first line trenches into the support trenches details of the action were made public in the following official re port : the enemy raided our trenches at two points the first attack was repulsed easily in the second the enemy was allowed to reach our wire entanglements then our fire opened and a moment later the american infantrymen rushed out in attack driving back the foe the pursuit was continued until the first enemy trenches were emptied and the germans had been driven back to their support trenches enemy artillery activity was i followed by extremely active shell ing by our heavy artillery which silenced two enemy batteries americans in heavy artillery exchange by bert ford staff correspondent of the interna tional news service with the american army in the toul sector april b the attack on the american outpost by a german patrol started the liveliest artillery exchange that has taken place in the sector northwest of toul in many weeks a sentry sighted several cronching figures in no man's land and hiÃŸ challenge drew a volley the amer icans replied with rifle volleys and machine-gun fire driving off the patrol heavy shelling by the germans which followed this clash brought a scathing artillery return from the american batteries heavy shelling sunday the enemy dropped more shells in this sector sunday than had been fired in the previous two months harassing the american front lines has been costly to the enemy every night raid has been defeated an is-year-old private in an amer ican ration detail who was ordered to surrender at one point emptied his automatic killing the sergeant in command of the germans loses three fingers he returned to his trench with three fingers missing due to the explosion of a german grenade ho was lifted to the shoulders of his matea and escorted to the dressing station the american are now calling their steel helmets carnegie der bies our men abroad to train but 30 days americans to be merged with irish french and english in reserve and lead offensive new contingents in camp here will be in battle line month after landing under new plan paris april 8 â€” american troops are expected to arrive very soon on the picardy front where the ger mans are preparing for another hard drive on amiens washington april b.â€”amer ican troops on their way to france will be ready to go into action within thirty days after arrival this is the outside time limit which generalissimo foch deems necessary for finishing their already thorough training they will be absorbed chiefly by the allied strategic reserve â€” the great army of maneuver created by the inter-allied council at the sugges tion of the american chief of staff gen tasker h bliss strategic reserve to lead offensive the strategic reserve is counted on to lead the allied counter offensive the new american army physically perfect and eager to fight is ac cordingly expected to play a big role in these historic operations skeleton brigades and regiments of the regular army may be brought up to firing line strength by brit ish and irish reserves well-informed officials of the war department in timated to-day that such a plan is under contemplation acting secretary of war benedict crowell said all dispositions of troops will be made by generalissimo foch other officials of the war depart ment said there was nothing new in the suggestion that irish troops be brigaded with american divisions the plan appears to be finding favor in england enthusiastic willingness from the irish is anticipated acting secre tary crowell indicating the im portant role in sight for american troops in france said that already the absorption of american troops by french and english divisions is under way more troops now on way to france he also let it be known that a record-breaking overseas american troop movement is under way through the war department the decision of the allied high command to make quick use of america's new army caused great satisfaction army heads indicated with pride that the allied high command regards the american material virtually on a par already with the other forces in the field they pointed out that the thirty days finishing off period allotted to the american reinforcements by gen eralissimo foch is indorsement of their estimates of the fighting qual ity of these troops indorsement of u s fighting qualities the expectation that the ameri can regular units may be skeleton ized and then filled out with allied reserves also brought mild sensa tions according to war depart ment heads there are no better fight ing forces on the western front than the american regulars plans of the war department it w*s said on high authority call for the transportation within thirty days of from 100,000 to 150,000 men german a rtillery pounds a llies on front of 125 miles british Â» london april b field marshal haig's report from head quarters to-night says : - except for hostile artillery activity on different parts of the battle front and especially in the neighborhood of bucquoy there is nothing of special interest to report the day war office statement said we advanced our line slightly during the night on the south bank of the somme east of vaire-sous-corbie north of the somme a few prisoners and a machine gun were captured by us in the neighborhood of nuville vitasee the enemy's artillery has shown increased activity during the night on the whole british battle front heavy hostile gas shelling has taken place also between lens and la bassee canal and east of armentieres french paris april 8 â€” the war office announcement to-night said : during the course of the day the enemy pressure con tinued north of the ailette river in the region of the lower coucy forest the advanced sections of our troops resisted and hin dered the advance of the enemy who was in greatly super ior numbers inflicting upon him heavy losses on the somme front between montdidier and noyon there was no infantry action but the two artilleries dis played spirited activity in the vosges an enemy attack failed north of tete de faux the day statement said : the night was marked by violent artillery actions especially on the left bank of the oise french patrols were very active bringing in pris oners on the left bank of the meuse in the argonne ger man raids were repulsed everywhere else the night passed in quiet german berlin april 8 â€” the official headquarters statement to day says : in continuation of our attack on the oise we drove the enemy out of his strong positions on the heights east of coucy-le-chateau an earlier statement said on the battle front on both sides of the somme the fighting activity remained limited to artillery duels local attacks by the british in hangard wood and by the french near grivesnes failed with heavy losses on the southern bank of the oise our successes of saturday forced the enemy to evacuate parts of his posi tions between bichancourt and barisis on the night of april 6-7 yesterday we continued our attack and threw the en emy back to the western bank of the ailette after having captured pierremande and folembray enemy columns retreating from bichancourt along the oise were attacked on the flank by our machine gun ere from the northern bank of the river and were shot down with the heaviest losses our troops advancing on the eastern border of coucy wood and by way of barisis stormed a hillock northeast of folembray and advanced as far as vereuil the num ber of prisoners has increased to over 2,000 captain von richthofen achieved his seventy-seventh and seventy-eighth aerial victories u s judge baker ill condition is serious judge francis e baker of the united states circuit court of ap peals is seriously ill at french lick springs ind physicians pronounced his illness pneumonia judge baker will be unable to sit with the court to-day and judge ferdinand a geiger of milwaukee has been called to fill the vacancy rosenwald to have high u.s.post report washingt9on april b lt is re ported that julius rosenwald of chi cago is to receive an important post in the course of a shake-up in the war department nald to be impend ing the duties of purchaser of war supplies are mentioned in connection with his name mother of samuel insull dies in london samuel insull chairman of the state council of defense received a cablegram yesterday stating that his mother mrs emma insull died last friday at her home in london eng land another message received by mr insull yesterday announced the death of one of his dearest friends george r jackson of new york mr insull will leave for new york to-day 8010 reprieved will tell german secrets paris april b bolo pasha has been granted a reprieve from the death penalty by the military court it was announced he is said to have offered to reveal important ger man secrets in return for his life president pmncare previously had refused 8010 clemencj , continued on page 4 column 3 i i ffj final n edition , i ' remember liberty onds !â€” american pencil co tain venus penclls advertisement other new of the loan i printed on pace 5.1 jw the weather a-2 \ 1 Chicago and vicinity â€” fair s ' and continued cool tuesday wednesday fair and somewhat warmer moderate northeast winds tuesday shifting to southeast wednesday i i temperature i , hiehest 4s lowest 31 mean 40